A LUCKY Liverpool couple woke up to a £1m present on Christmas Day - when they discovered they had won the Christmas Eve lottery.

The winners scooped £1m on the special Christmas Eve Euromillions draw.

The couple are understood to be a young, self-employed joiner and his wife - but lottery organisers Camelot were keeping their identities secret until later today.

The pair were expected to go public with details of their win by toasting their good luck with a champagne celebration at the Devonshire House Hotel in Edge Lane, Wavertree.

The couple had one of the 25 tickets that each won a million-pound prize on the special, UK-only, Euromillions Millionaire Raffle draw on December 24.

The for-now mystery couple join ranks of lucky Liverpudlians who have won big on the lottery over the years - including Merseyside’s Magnificent Seven who shared a £45m Euromillions prize win in November 2009.

The IT workers at a city BT call centre took home £6.5m each after their syndicate had one of two winning tickets for a Euromillions rollover.

The region's biggest winner, David Ashcroft, scooped a £12.3m jackpot in 1997.

The carpenter from Mossley Hill vowed to continue living in a modest terrace and work in the same workshop.